Sentence examples for obsessive reliance from inspiring English sources
The seductiveness of the conversations alarmed Mr. Weizenbaum, who came to believe that an obsessive reliance on technology was indicative of a moral failing in society, an observation rooted in his experiences as a child growing up in Nazi Germany.
One of the film industry's dirty little secrets is that its nearly obsessive reliance on testing of movie trailers and ads has been undercut by the relatively primitive methodology of some research techniques.
In his address to the nation from the Oval Office last week, President Obama could have laid out a dramatic new energy policy for the U.S., calling on every American to do his or her part to help us escape the insidious, nonstop destruction that is the result of our obsessive reliance on fossil fuels.
Equally unchanging were his idiosyncrasies: an incurable lust for large quantities of very rich food; a constant need to be surrounded by a small circle of intimates, which included Jean Cocteau, Christian Bérard, the composers Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, and Raymonde Zehnacker, the directrice of his design studio; and an obsessive reliance on a noted Paris clairvoyant, Mme.
(And with Jack Nicholson, no less.) The underlying anxiousness of the filmmaking, the almost obsessive reliance on patter and pratfalls, and even the neurotic tastefulness of the costumes and sets (every outfit is just right, every bibelot just so) find a perfect corollary in each of Ms. Keaton's artful, becoming twitches and blushes.
What is not so clear is how the nation can protect our children and our public schools from this administration's obsessive reliance on standardized tests to rank and rate students, teachers, principals and schools.
This has created a social disposition characterized by an obsessive self-reliance through a creative coping with the deficiencies of the pastoral economy, in the absence or inadequacy, of any kind of support from the state, or the short-term and whimsical attention from international agencies.
Relapse to avoidance strategies (e.g., reliance on checking behaviors in obsessive-compulsive disorder or avoidance of social gatherings in social anxiety disorder) in the process of exposure is undesirable even for people suffering only from an anxiety disorder.
The impulse cannot be easily aligned with an obsessive psyche; for athletes, neither can it be boiled down to a reliance on endorphins or an addiction to pain.
The Seeking Proxies for Internal States (SPIS) hypothesis predicts that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is associated with a deficit in subjective convictions, which may lead to a reliance on external substitutes for the perceptions of an individual's internal states.
Most responders had great confidence in ADs for treatment of panic disorder and thought they are effective also in obsessive-compulsive disorders and social phobias (Fig. 3), but the majority of the responders showed a limited reliance on ADs' effectiveness to treat sleep disorders, psychosomatic illness, chronic pain, and premenstrual syndrome.
